homeless persons - fiction books

Holes

Louis Sachar

(1241 reviews )

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Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day, every day, digging holes: five ...more

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The Street Lawyer

John Grisham

(542 reviews )

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Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm with eight hundred lawyers. The money was good and getting better; a partnership was three years away. He was a rising star with no time to waste, no time to stop, no time to toss a few coins into the cups of panhandlers. No time for a conscience.But a...more

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Holes

Louis Sachar

(192 reviews )

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Check out the Holes tour with Louis Sachar!Monday, October 20th, 7:00 p.m. Anderson’s Bookshop, Naperville, ILTuesday, October 21st, 7:00 p.m., Barnes & Noble, Skokie, ILWednesday, October 22nd, 7:00 p.m., Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop, Brookfield, WIThursday, October 23rd, 7:00 p.m., Red Balloon Bookshop, St. Paul, MNFriday, October 24th, 7:00 p.m....more

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Rule of the Bone: A Novel

Russell Banks

(71 reviews )

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When we first meet him, Chappie is a punked-out teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in an upstate New York trailer park. During this time, he slips into drugs and petty crime. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he claims for himself a new identity as a permanent outsider; he gets a crossed-bone...more

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The Echo

Minette Walters

(11 reviews )

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In this hypnotic novel of psychological suspense, a homeless man is found starved to death in the garage of a ritzy London home. The police chalk it up to an unfortunate accident, but a journalist, Michael Deacon, is intrigued. Amanda Powell, a socialite whose wealthy husband vanished five years ago after being accused of embezzlement, is just as i...more

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The Echo

Minette Walters

(11 reviews )

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“It was the smell that Mrs. Powell noticed first. Slightly sweet. Slightly unpleasant…It shocked her badly to find a dead man in the corner, his head slumped on his knees.”When Billy Blake, a homeless alcoholic, is found dead of starvation in Amanda Powell’s private garage in the ritzy docklands area of London, the press arrives in force. B...more

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To Play the Fool

Laurie R. King

(4 reviews )

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Celebrated author Laurie R. King dazzles mystery lovers once again in this, her second Kate Martinelli mystery. The story unfolds as a band of homeless people cremate a beloved dog in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. When it comes to incidents like this, the authorities are willing to overlook a few brokenregulations. But three weeks later, after ...more

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Holes

Louis Sachar

(97 reviews )

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As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

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Tunnel Vision

Sara Paretsky

(3 reviews )

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Stubbornness has landed private eye V.I. Warshawski in big trouble at her Chicago office. With her grand old Loop building set to be razed, shes become a hold-out tenant amid frayed wiring and scary, empty corridors. Then she finds a homeless woman with three kids in the basement, and before she can rescue them, they disappear. Worst of all, she...more

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This Side of Brightness: A Novel

Colum McCann

(8 reviews )

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At the turn of the century, Nathan Walker comes to New York City to take the most dangerous job in the country. A sandhog, he burrows beneath the East River, digging the tunnel that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan. In the bowels of the riverbed, the sandhogs—black, white, Irish, Italian—dig together, the darkness erasing all differ...more

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